Former LSU Acacia Pledge Details Hazing Experience After Chapter Indefinitely Suspended
We almost made it a week. It has been six days since we last reported on a fraternity being removed from campus. Last week, Pi Kappa Phi at NC State was suspended after restaurant employees discovered a pledge book full of offensive content. I genuinely believed we’d reach a full week without watching another chapter disappear from its respective campus, but it appears as if LSU’s Acacia chapter isn’t going to let us reach that milestone.
On Tuesday, it was reported that the chapter was “indefinitely suspended” following claims of behavioral misconduct. As the university investigates the chapter, a YouTube video detailing the alleged hazing was posted on the website of LSU’s school newspaper, The Daily Reveille.
The former Acacia pledge discusses his Hell Week experience that included eating dog food, excessive smoking, and forced exercises.
The former pledge who reporting the hazing claims that he did so to protect others, but he has paid the price for his reports.
From LSU Reveille:
In December he wrote an email detailing his experiences to the Associate Director of Greek Life, Jonathan Sanders
He says his main motive in writing the email is to warn other students about the pledge process.
Since the email, he has received several threats on social media and his car was vandalized. Police are currently investigating the damages to his car, but he believes Acacia members acted out in retaliation.
The national organization has not yet commented on the allegations..
The national organization has finally commented on the allegations. They decided to officially remove Acacia off of campus.
The Acacia national office released a statement today announcing the closure of the University chapter after reported violations of the fraternity’s standards and policies related to the treatment of its members.
[via LSU Reveille, The Advocate, WBRZ]
Loose lips sink ships.
11 years ago at 9:31 amGah what a fucking month for Greeks.
11 years ago at 9:34 amIt just perplexes me. Most hazing doesn’t bother me. But there is a Goddamned line where person should think “Hey. Maybe we don’t make the pledges eat rotten food,” and then after being outed, someone in the fraternity has the brilliant idea to further add to the shit storm by vandalizing and threatening. I support shutting down chapters like this, and you should too. They bring our community down. Let us be gone with these cancers.
11 years ago at 9:34 amI have no problem with hazing as long as it’s meant for the betterment of the pledge class, but there is a fine line between ok hazing and hazing that just puts people down. That being said he is still a pussy for opening his mouth. My father to this day won’t discuss what he had to do for his pledge semester nor will I. It’s a part of the brotherhood that we joined.
11 years ago at 9:38 amI agree for the most part, and I was divided whether or not most of this gentleman’s story is something that needs to leave the fraternity walls, until the end when the boy said that they were denied water, in a steamy humid room meaning they would get dehydrated very rapidly, and his pledge brother with a heart condition passed out. Most of his story I would say “Suck it up” but when you are endangering the health of the pledges, particularly those with health conditions, I would argue that perhaps it is time to come forward to out potentially life threatening practices before someone really gets hurt or dies. The Greek community does not need to lose another man. Not again.
11 years ago at 9:45 amMaking pledges be life sized chess pieces and be their butlers or poker dealers is great. I’m even okay with making them give you their meal swipe card. But forcing them to eat shit sandwiches or wet cat food and then eating their own puke? That’s worse than being hazed during my time in the marine corps, Fuck that.
11 years ago at 9:47 amI’d fucking starve without pledge swipes.
11 years ago at 11:05 amLikely the “shit sandwiches” were beans mashed up with peanut butter and mixed with burnt coffee to look like shit and taste bad, the “cat food” was deviled ham put into washed and cleaned cat food cans to make them think it was really cat food, the “piss martinis” were really lemon water with a little lemon juice and olive juice and vodka” and so forth. Mind fucks are good. But things that threaten health are not. Five hard licks on a bare ass is no biggie, but 50 is something else. Unfortunately some guys get drunk and their common sense leaves them.
11 years ago at 7:09 pmTell us more, you must have been there.
11 years ago at 11:01 pmI was going to say something similar. I have no problem with “bows n toes” or that kneel down and stand up thing he had to do, but if they’re doing it for hours gotta give the kids at least a bottle of water. At for Christ’s sake if they have a heart condition you don’t let them do anything to aggravate that. I had a pledge brother with a heart condition and while we were doing PT every morning they would just make him lay face down on the basement ground (usually covered shit from the party the night before).
There is nothing wrong with hazing, in fact I encourage it and loved the bonding experience it created, as long as it is controlled and your not a dumbass.
11 years ago at 9:41 amThe kid mentioned did not have a heart condition. There was a pledge that did have a heart condition and was monitored closely. The kid mentioned did not even need get resuscitated apparently.
11 years ago at 5:43 pmHere’s the problem with hazing: the consensus on this site is that it’s okay, up to an arbitrary line. But there are 300,000+ active fraternity members in this country, each with a different definition of where that line is. There’s always some dumbass who will take it too far. The goal of pledgeship is to integrate the pledges into the chapter, not to build pledge class unity by setting them against the actives. Fraternity hazing in its modern form began with GI’s returning from WWII who understood how military hazing prepared you to go to war, and they applied that to Greek life. The vast majority of fraternity members today are not veterans, and don’t understand how to properly apply hazing.
11 years ago at 11:05 amI was in the Acacia pledge class with this kid and I can confirm that no one liked the kid that went to IFC and told them everything from day one. He was an absolute goober that didn’t know he was supposed to wear a belt with khaki pants to our first tailgate and didn’t ever understand why we were hazed, he took it personally and didn’t know what he was getting into when he rushed whatsoever. The only reason we never balled him is because we were afraid he’d immediately run to IFC and tell them everything. Unfortunately he dropped 3 days before we were initiated so there was nothing we could do. This kid was shit on regularly because he didn’t get along with anyone in our pledge class, wasn’t liked by the actives, was a shitty pledge brother, and didn’t know any of his pledge brothers names 3 months into pledgeship. To speak on “how hard” we had it and how much he exaggerated everything, I was BORN WITH OUT A LEFT HAND FROM MY ELBOW DOWN, I am 5’4″, and 140lbs….I, the kid with one fucking hand, was voted most outstanding pledge by my 43 man pledge class if that says anything. So no, it wasn’t that we had it that bad. It’s that this guy, a member of the LSU powerlifting team might I add, was a weak minded sorry excuse for a man that felt he deserved his 15 minutes of fame to try and “save” kids from being hazed in the future. A fraternity that has been on campus for 60 years without ever being kicked off has essentially been handed the death penalty because one kid thought he could save the world.
11 years ago at 3:13 amSnitches get stitches
11 years ago at 9:34 amNot sure that was the moral of the story here.
11 years ago at 9:41 amleave, now.
11 years ago at 9:41 amSometimes it’s best to take your own advice champ
11 years ago at 9:44 amPics or it didn’t happen
11 years ago at 9:36 amAt least he didn’t have to cut the head off of a goat with a samurai sword
11 years ago at 9:37 amI’m all for a little well-planned character building, but this shit was just fucking stupid. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
11 years ago at 9:38 amI completely agree that it’s important to draw the line between “good” and “bad” hazing but even so this doesn’t sound too extreme to me. 20 years ago this would have been considered a joke. Just four years ago in my own chapter there used to be a three day camp out in the woods during which a variety of things happened and no one was allowed to sleep more than 45 mins at a time. If the same thing happened now there would be criminal charges, a suspension of Greek Life, and
11 years ago at 9:46 ammost likely Expulsions for brothers. In comparison most pledge classes now have it very easy.
11 years ago at 9:50 amPS Fuck you Intern I wasn’t done yet fix this shit app
In today’s culture, anything that makes pledges pass out or violently puke has to be considered across the line. Lap me if you want, but if the Greek community as a whole is going to survive, we have to examine ourselves closely.
11 years ago at 9:54 amI’m all for some degree of hazing but you’re correct, the Greek community can’t afford it and with social media and liberals begging to have more ammo against us this might not be the right time to make a public stand in support of hazing, even within limits.
11 years ago at 10:51 amI agree, I myself had to go through certain things (that I will not say) and honestly my pledge brothers and I came out better for it. But there is a line, and a couple years later our president at the time, took a vote outside of meeting and it ended, my chapter no longer hazes. But now they are just a bunch of little fucks who think they are entitled… almost none would be in the chapter when I was there. L & R brother
11 years ago at 11:06 amThis is what happens when you get a chapter full of retards. Was there not one guy who was like “Hey, maybe we are going a little too far here.”
11 years ago at 9:38 amHazing is going to happen. Everyone just needs to be better about not getting caught.
11 years ago at 9:39 amThey made their bed, now they gotta lie in it. Just sucks that the current situation causes this to reflect poorly on all greeks. Shut em down.
11 years ago at 9:40 am